And thank god too… Murdoch is scary, luckily there are not many cracks that he can find a profit stream from, unless there subliminal advertising in the screen saver or something, however, I wasn't talking about backers I meant you left poor old Bill off the flat world list. 
Yeah, they rightfully declined Jobs' offer for free OS X for these puppies as well, although it would have upped the overall functionality out of the box. Maybe it'll get him to put a nice GUI on Darwin, open source a few more of his apps and then provide a free install package.
Might even get him to put some $ into helping the Java NeoOfficeJ 2.0 project (1.1 works great BTW) to get OO off X windows and make it even more universal.
viva open source!
Ed

On Nov 16, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Steve Cavrak wrote:


On Nov 16, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Ed Crelin wrote:

Hey, you left out M$, 

I didn't leave them out, they left themselves out ...

The $100 laptop is being developed by One Laptop per Child (OLPC), an independent, non-profit association based on the "constructionist" theories of learning pioneered by Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay. It is totally separate from MIT, with its own board, executives, location, and staff. Its founding members are AMD, Brightstar, Google, News Corporation, and Red Hat, all of whom have funded both OLPC and the MIT Media Lab.

(Hmm. Robert Murdoch is IN, Bill Gates is OUT. Not sure what that means :) )